Considering the fact we're ushering ourselves into
a digital age of gaming, it would be nice to give people that option to download all the games they want to purchase on Day 1 instead of fighting other people for physical copies in the stores.
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In September 2015, Jake Tucker wrote a piece entitled «Are We About to Live Through a «Lost
Age»
of Gaming,» examining the very concerns I'm expressing here, albeit with a focus on
digital games that never exist beyond distant, unseen servers and slowly emptying multiplayer lobbies.
This is a part
of the
gaming industry, and in this
age of instant
digital information and omni - connectedness from seemingly everyone on the planet, this is the kind
of stuff we're being allowed to witness across this modern media landscape.